If something goes wrong, it is more important to talk about who is going
to fix it, than who is to blame. -- Francis J. Gable
The thing for which we prepare and which we earnestly expect usually
comes upon us. Food is prepared to be eaten; clothing is made to be worn;
munitions of war are produced to be used in warfare. Just as truly, preparations
made for purposes of peace help to bring about the peaceful condition for which
they are prepared. -- Francis J. Gable
The employee in the industrial world looks for certain fruit at
the hands of his employer. He has a right to expect not only a living wage, but
a wage that permits the laborer and his family to enjoy the comforts of life;
in addition he may look to this tree in the field of his employment to produce
proper working conditions, reasonable hours of labor, courtesy, and kindly
consideration. A business institution is not immune from the operation of the
principle which says that whatever is unproductive shall be weeded out of commercial
life. God has need of business, and his need demands that business shall be
efficient and productive. The establishment of a legitimate and worthy business
is not an accident; it is implanted in a community in response to a definite demand
made by the people of the community.
Men
who catch a vision of the possibilities that will open to them by the
application of Christian principles in their affairs, realize that it is
necessary to count the cost when they determine to abandon the old ideas that
have prevailed so long in business. The new course of living which they are
entering upon—becoming disciples of Jesus Christ—requires new standards of
action, new courage, and new strength. If the Christian business man has not
developed these qualities in himself, he is likely to succumb to the pressure
of old conditions which will be brought to bear upon him.
From:
LESSONS IN BUSINESS
FROM THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS
CHRIST
FRANCIS J. GABLE
Compiled from The Christian Business
Man
Unity
1923
